Nor are they sheep or goats.  I realize some people may resemble farm animals on occasion, but I can assure you there are some important differences.  And those differences are what makes this so not OK.

Chef Daniel Angerer is letting diners at Klee Brasserie munch on cheese made from his wife’s breast milk.

“It tastes like cow’s-milk cheese, kind of sweet,” he told The Post.

The flavor depends on what the cheese is served with — Angerer recommends a Riesling — and “what the mother eats,” said Angerer, who once bested Bobby Flay on TV’s “Iron Chef.”

Breast milk doesn’t curdle well due to its low protein content, so a little moo juice has to be added to round out the texture, Angerer said.

After blogging about his efforts with the human cheese, customers started demanding a sample, he said.

“The phone was ringing off the hook,” the chef said. “So I prepared a little canapé of breast-milk cheese with figs and Hungarian pepper.”

We don’t allow fellow citizens to sell organs, and we don’t allow them to sell their body for sex.  There’s a very good reason for this - financial incentives for selling or renting your body can induce desperate people to take very dangerous risks with their body.  Imagine if breast milk became a commercial enterprise - women could be coerced into taking hormones or antibiotics or supplements to increase the quantity or quality of milk they produce with potentially negative side effects.

Yes we do allow people to sell blood.  However donations are heavily regulated and the product is used for life saving measures, not as fancy appetizers.

Congrats to Angerer, who obviously is very skilled in garnering PR for himself.  Now let’s hope this doesn’t become a trend.

Tags: cheese, milk, restaurants, weird world of food

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